Ever since then the weather has been bad. Look at the last three days below. With weather like that I would have no chance of charging anything. The forecast for the next 6 days is the same too.

The only good thing about the rain was that I was able to re-test my old tent. I suspected it wasn’t going to be water resistant any more and I was right!

As for the bike, i’m really thinking of doing it on the Kronan bike now. Its a solid machine and the seat is really comfortable. I’m going to order a couple of new tyres and some spares this weekend and get it back up to match fitness.

The first of my planned start dates is approaching. I was hoping to start on the 21st May but thats just over a week away. Its not looking good. I am looking at a second date now (10-19th June.) just in case the outlook dosn’t improve in the next week.

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Hi Steve, in case the weather doesn’t improve: using two dynamos gives you a total of about 6W for every hour you cycle. Added bonus: the longer you travel the less time left to use all that power. You’d be faster at home as well :)

Haha. I’m trying to avoid taking power from my legs but its an option. I fixed the broken dynamo on my Kronan yesterday but was wondering how one would take that open-voltage/variable current source. Charge controller? It would need to feed something that would take a trickle feed right?

Steve.

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